Richard Hakluyt
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Richard Hakluyt was an English writer and priest. He is known for promoting the English colonization of North America through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America and T
Hakluyt depicted in stained glass in the west window of the south transept of Bristol Cathedral, by Charles Eamer Kempe, c. 1905
Richard Hakluyt Divers Voyages 1582 signature
The library of Christ Church, Oxford, by an unknown artist, from Rudolph Ackermann's History of Oxford (1813)
The Norman chapter house of Bristol Cathedral (engraving from 1882). Hakluyt was a member of the chapter.
Francis Walsingham
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Sir Francis Walsingham was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".
Portrait c. 1585
Ruins of Scadbury Hall, seat of the Walsingham family, Chislehurst, Kent
Seventeenth-century engraving of Queen Elizabeth with William Cecil (left) and Francis Walsingham (right)
Famous portrait of Elizabeth I after the defeat of the Spanish Armada